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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    US President Bush has been having a difficult summer. Recent polls show a considerable decline in public approval of his conduct of the nation’s business, yet in just few weeks voters will decide whether he or Democrat John Kerry is to be the next president. If things are going so badly for Bush, then Kerry must be doing well, right?
    (41)______. His public appearances kindle little enthusiasm. His TV ads sway few viewers. As a result, Kerry supporters tend to be more anti-Bush than they are genuinely pro-Kerry.
    Democratic strategists point out that Kerry has a pattern of coming from behind to win political races. And even though Kerry stirs little excitement, many Americans are quite eager to learn whom he will choose as his running mate. A popular vice presidential candidate could energize his campaign, especially since there is little chance that President. Bush will dump the much-loathed Richard Cheney from the Republican ticket.
    Most observers agree that Kerry is not a particularly strong candidate for the US presidency. He tends to be respected, but he arouses little enthusiasm. (42)______. But then, two weeks ago, the Republicans counterattacked vigorously, end the race is once again wide open.
    The public’s generally positive impression of Senator’s Kerry’s character is based in large part on his record during the war in Vietnam, when he performed heroically as the commander of a "swift boat", a light military craft used by the US Navy to thread the rivers and canals of southern Vietnam. The crew of his old boat are united in their praise of him.
    (43)______. Two weeks ago they began appearing in stingingly negative TV ads aired in crucial states where currently undecided voters will probably determine the outcome of the election. And the ads were effective, drawing independent voters away from Kerry. In the meantime, Kerry’s own crewmen have strongly rejected the new version of events.
    (44)______. Journalists quickly turned up links between the navy veterans and Texas fat cats who had long supplied the Bush family with funds for political campaigns. These rich folks were in turn linked to Karl Rove, Bush’s masterful political strategist—his very own Zhuge Liang.
    (45)______. Cartoonist David Horsey, like many other observers, thinks Karl Rove is up to his old tricks; a similar effort—in this case, untraceable slanderous rumors during a key primary race—undermined popular Republican Senator John McCaine’s campaign for the GOP nomination in 2000. In today’s cartoon Rove is portrayed as the puppeteer controlling Bush’s wealthy supporters in Texas (notice the Texas-style cowboy hat). The hand puppet in turn seems to be manipulating another, smaller puppet that represents the angry swift boat veterans.

A. Nonetheless, thanks to the slow economic recovery, the difficult situation in Iraq and changing perceptions of President Bush’s competence, he seemed to be on the road to a very narrow victory in November.
B. But leadership, you know, isn’t about taking the easy route; it is about making the tough, sometimes unpopular decisions. President Bush has demonstrated that he can make tough decisions, and I personally like the fact that his faith end his values are the foundation of his decisions.
C. Not exactly. Americans outside Massachusetts, which Kerry represents in the Senate, seem to find it hard to relate to the Democratic candidate.
D. While Bush would dearly love to undermine Kerry’s image, he cannot afford to be seen doing so. (His own military record, after all; makes a sorry contrast with Kerry’s.)
E. Are the ads the Bush campaign in action or just the vengeful protest of naval officers whose leadership was questioned in a recent biography of Kerry? It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to make such an ad and buy air time; so many people immediately suspected that wealthy Republicans were behind the effort.
F. However, a group of navy veterans (all present in the same area of Vietnam as Kerry and during the same period, some as senior officers, others as crewmen not on Kerry’s boat but on other, similar craft) have denounced Kerry in a book that came out last month. They allege that he did not deserve the medals for valiant leadership he won in the war.
G. Kerry remains an unknown quantity to most Americans, but better known Democrats are much in the news. Examine the publicity posters in the cartoon. In both upper comers are ads for ex-President Clinton’s lengthy autobiography, My Life.

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答案D
解析 本题前一段谈到布什竞选阵营对克里在越战中的表现加以诋毁。本题内容后，作者又指出：和其他许多观察家一样，漫画家戴维.霍西认为卡尔.罗夫又在耍他的老把戏了—在2000年竞选共和党(GOP)总统候选人时，他用了一个相似的计策，使原来人气很旺的参议员约翰.麦凯恩的竞选受挫，而在那一次，他是在一场关键性的初级竞选活动中散布了无法追踪来源的、诽谤性的谣言。显然，这部分仍然在谈论布什对克里加以的诋毁。浏览剩下的三个选项B，D和G，虽然选项G提到了cartoon(卡通)，但选项D中undermine Kerry’s image(诋毁克里的形象)显然是承接上段内容而来，因此更符合上下文逻辑。该句意为：尽管布什太想破坏克里的形象了，但他承担不起被人发现自己在这么做的后果(毕竟，与克里相比，他自己的军事履历显得很可怜)。这与下文中2000年，他散布了无法追踪来源的、诽谤性的谣言有语义上的直接联系。
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